So he went back to him and found him standing beside his offering, with all the Moabite officials.
The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Go back to Balak and give him this word.”
Then Balaam spoke his message: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘curse Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.’
These were the names of the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.